get as far as

Little by little, I’m going to keep doing what I can to get as far as I can go.

Ms Gale said: "To get as far as we've got, I feel like we've won already, but to get to the final - that would be a massive dream come true."

It does sound crazy to say, but it’s what they’re pushing for, and they want to get as far as they can on it.

The actual number of people complaining about back billing is likely to be much higher because only cases that cannot be resolved by suppliers in the first instance get as far as the ombudsman.

Brayshaw, who is from Harrogate, did get as far as a try-out for the GB Start rowing programme but was rejected.